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quiz
[ kwiz ]
noun
- an informal test or examination of a student or class.
- a questioning.
- a practical joke; a hoax.
- Chiefly British. an eccentric, often odd-looking person.
verb (used with object)
- to examine or test (a student or class) informally by questions.
- to question closely:
The police quizzed several suspects.
- Chiefly British. to make fun of; ridicule; mock; chaff.
quiz
/ kwɪz /
noun
- an entertainment in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions, esp as a radio or television programme
- ( as modifier )
a quiz programme
- any set of quick questions designed to test knowledge
- an investigation by close questioning; interrogation
- obsolete.a practical joke; hoax
- obsolete.a puzzling or eccentric individual
- obsolete.a person who habitually looks quizzically at others, esp through a small monocle
verb
- to investigate by close questioning; interrogate
- informal.to test or examine the knowledge of (a student or class)
- obsolete.tr to look quizzically at, esp through a small monocle
Derived Forms
- ˈquizzer, noun
Other Words From
- quizza·ble adjective
- quizzer noun
- un·quizza·ble adjective
- un·quizzed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of quiz1
Word History and Origins
Origin of quiz1
Example Sentences
The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.
Whenever I take a clickbait quiz to determine which of The Avengers I would be, I always game the questions to aim for the Hulk.
Pop quiz: How many of the top 15 highest-U.S.-grossing movies of all time—adjusted for inflation—star comic-book characters?
Take the quiz below and see if you can match the spouse to her post-scandal statement.
I scored a 50 percent on that little quiz, which I have since learned is proof that I live under a boulder.
So whilst we was eatin' breakfast I begins t' quiz, an', one way an' another, lets on I wanted t' see that Injun scout.
Robinson enrolled him in his police and it was the fashion openly to quiz, and secretly respect him.
Hardly had they taken their places when Napoleon began to quiz Betsy on the fondness of the English for "rosbif and plum pudding."
The Emperor continued to tease and quiz, pulling Betsy's ear or her dress, and always managing to escape being caught.
One day at the meet this young man said to Captain Bolton, "Let us quiz the old fellow."
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